oh jason don t say thati was thinking if that plate had somenice chocolate cake stuck to it i mighttry to scurry out and nab a bitbut that s quite a bit beyond my comfort zone and being remindedof my mortality not that the professorwould ever intentionally squash mebut you never know with those macbook airs slamanyway i think i ll just stay here inthe house until it all blows overwhatever it might be

i dunno maybe i just need to moltand get out more i ve been hiding allsummer wracked with fear of someunknown dread maybe it was the gatesbusiness over on the next block herein cambridge mass or maybe it s justa natural dread of my inevitable demisebut i m sure nobody wants to hear theexistential musings of a cockroachboo hoo sniff blunk

The judge pointed out that Taitz had not authenticated the "Kenyan birth cert", but he accepted as fact a picture of a cert from Obama's site despite the fact that that picture has never been authenticated by any gov't agency. In other words, he gave BHO the benefit of the doubt where he didn't give it to Taitz. Note that that doesn't involve "burden of proof", it involves using different rules for evidence from different parties.

I know that Althouse is smart enough to be able to discuss that discrete aspect of this issue without discussing the other aspects, but expect BHO fans to not be smart enough to distinguish between the part and the whole.

So does anyone actually believe that it was just a horrible coincidence that Obama dumped the missile shield on the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Poland?

Sure, I believe that. We're talking about a guy who thought the U.S. Army liberated Auschwitz, so he clearly doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about WWII.

Why waste time learning about how a bunch of white people killed each other back in the olden days? Obama would rather ponder important stuff like Skip Gates getting hassled by the Cambridge cops and Kanye West acting like jackass at some awards ceremony.

Nancy Pelosi is warning that a "climate of violence" is spreading and that she's seen it before in SF in the 70's [when Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were murdered by ex-Supervisor Dan White].

Bullshit, I lived in Noe Valley at the time and there was thug violence against gays but SF was not in the grip of a climate of violence. In fact after Milk's election the City's mood was that of elation, an aura of hope that gay rights were inevitable and soon.

The killings were personal, the result of one unhinged man's rage.

"In 1998, the San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco magazine reported that Frank Falzon, a homicide detective with the San Francisco police, said that he met White in 1984. Falzon said that at that meeting, White confessed that not only was his killing of Moscone and Milk premeditated, but that he had actually planned to kill Silver and Brown as well. Falzon quoted White as having said, "I was on a mission. I wanted four of them. Carol Ruth Silver, she was the biggest snake ... and Willie Brown, he was masterminding the whole thing."

Falzon, who had been a friend of White's and who had taken White's initial statement at the time White turned himself in, said that he believed White's confession." -wikipedia

To equate the opposition to Obama's policies/agenda with murder is another bully tactic to silence opposition.

Vilifying ordinary Americans who want straight answers as un-American, angry mobs or racists didn't work, nor will this tactic; it only reveals their desperation.

Keep digging Nancy, you and Carter's ilk are causing far more harm to Obama's agenda than his critics ever could.

So does anyone actually believe that it was just a horrible coincidence that Obama dumped the missile shield on the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Poland?

If he had waited until tomorrow it would have been the 70th anniversary of the Polish flight to Romania, so that might have been worse. The day after would be the 50th anniversary of Khrushchev being banned from Disney, so that might have been better.

"President Barack Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week. An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about.

"They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it," the president said in the nationally televised address.

In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. The efforts of his sister and the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan got Mr. Raddatz's policy reinstated within three weeks of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him. Mr. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown.

Obama aides say the president got the essence of the story correct."

Fake but accurate? It gets worse:

"Obama speech writers appear to have been informed by erroneous media reports, including an article on Slate.com that stated, "The delay in treatment eliminated Raddatz's chances of recovery, and he died."

Its author, Timothy Noah, said Wednesday that he wasn't contacted by the White House and didn't realize Mr. Raddatz hadn't died because of the treatment delay."

The President gives a major speech addressing 1/6 of the economy and his staff uses slate.com as a source?

as i understand it from readingthe web as much as any insectthe missile radar was intendedto catch iranian long rangemissiles on their way somewherewhere i dunnosheboygan maybeanyway the c i a now sez iran isnot interested in long rangemissiles but only ones long enoughto reach tel aviv which shouldsolve the overpopulation problemdownwind but i don't worry cuz i m pretty radiation proof

In this game, it's a different order of magnitude-the numbers, and it's a long game. The end game always opens up more options kind of early to be taking some off the table unilaterally- some will almost always be taken for you.

A headless bear and an empty bag of potato chips; this is symbolic of something, but what?

The headless bear is obviously Russia. They were once powerful but now they are weak yet still feared. Maybe the shadow between the chips and the plate represents that fear. Note that it is closer to the chips than the plate.

The empty bag of chips is obviously President Obama. Chips are tasty and enticing (especially when you are hungry) but they are not satisfying in the long-run. But it is even worse than that since the bag is empty and so one does not even get the superficial pleasure of the salty snack.

Deena told me today her fundraiser is getting out of hand. (a thing called 3rd Way, an organization that helps teens stay out of trouble)

I go, "Well, that a good thing, in'nit?" She shrugged. "I guess so. I'm just so tired. And I'm worried we're not going to have enough food."

I go, "No problemo."

Here are the sourdough loaves baked today for tiny sandwiches tomorrow, the dough having fermented the last three days. I haven't tasted them but I don't have to. The strong aroma of the sponge told me everything I needed to know. They will make hundreds of delicious little sandwiches assembled at the last hour, and that's just a part of the whole deal.

I love it when the people I assist freak out while I remain the very model of composure. They don't know how I do it.

Rev- There's always a price to pay. You can pay now or pay later. Later always costs more.

Ok, explain to me why the United States needs to pay a price for Europe's defense, either now OR later.

In retrospect, we could even have sat out of the European theater of both previous world wars and probably come out ahead on the deal. Why do we have to police the world, especially when the world just ends up being ungrateful for it?

Well since I'm working with only four hours of sleep here and jet lag , and because it would take about a book length comment to address your hypothetical...I'm too tired to edit myself so being part French I surrender...

But since one hypothetical deserves une autre-Obama in this latest move revealed himself to be the Anti-Reagan.

What if Reagan had never been elected?

This is what it would look like give it another seven years and we'll really be there. [Time travel it ain't just for Star Wars...]